Valencia - Fallas

Every year in March Valencia celebrates the fiesta of San José, a spring festival during which large tableaux known as fallas, with figures made of papier mâché and rags (ninots), are set up in the streets and burned at midnight on the last day of the fiesta. The custom originated in the Middle Ages, when carpenters and other craftsmen used to burn up left-over scraps of wood and other materials on the feast of St Joseph.